Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
3166.000 Kalanchoe
Description of the genus
Biennial, perennial or sometimes annual, succulent herbs. Leaves usually opposite and decussate, connate at the base, the lower set close together; uppermost bract-like; lamina entire or rarely pinnatifid; margin entire, crenate or serrate. Inflorescence terminal, composed of cymes arranged in a panicle, corymb or thyrse. Flowers 4-merous, erect, relatively large and showy. Corolla lobes united below into a tetragonous tube, this rounded and swollen at the base and usually constricted above; lobes usually apiculate. Stamens 8. Carpels 4, ± connate at base. Nectariferous scales semi-circular to linear. Worldwide: 125 species (incl. Bryophyllum) in the Old World tropics, especially Africa and Madagascar. Zimbabwe: 10 cultivated taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| beharensis Drake | Description, Image |
| fedtschenkoi Raym.-Hamet & H.Perrier | Description, Image |
| gastonis-bonnieri Raym.-Hamet & H. Perrier | |
| longiflora Schltr. | |
| manginii Raym.-Hamet & H. Perrier | |
| marmorata Baker | |
| orgyalis Baker | |
| pumila Baker | |
| thyrsiflora Harv. | |
| uniflora (Stapf) Raym.-Hamet |
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External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): KalanchoeBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Kalanchoe
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Kalanchoe
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Kalanchoe
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iNaturalist: Kalanchoe
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Kalanchoe
JSTOR Plant Science: Kalanchoe
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Kalanchoe
Plants of the World Online: Kalanchoe
Tropicos: Kalanchoe
Wikipedia: Kalanchoe